Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.

For years, I wrote songs to try to get cuts or try to have hits or try to appease a label or to be famous. I was learning a lot of valuable tools about structure and how to articulate. I was getting really good at that.

My wife is so sweet... she probably gets tired of me calling her with nothing to say, but she's always there for me.

I have some lofty goals. I want 'You Broke Up With Me' to go Number One.

When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love.

Open Wings - Broken Strings is an opportunity for you to get to the heart of your favorite artists and their songs in a unique and compelling way. Stripped down, intimate and acoustic, you'll hear the strings on the guitar vibrate and buzz, the vocal chords hum and pulsate as the songs you love come to life like you never knew they could.

I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.